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United States Patent | 5,765,226 |
Douady ,   et al. | June 16, 1998 |
A garment for massaging muscle masses of a person's body. The garment includes plural flexible channels that are separate and independent, sealed, and elongated, and that are each partially filled with a substantially incompressible free by flowable material and oriented substantially in a direction of fibers of the muscle masses to be massaged. Muscle masses are massaged by movement of the flowable material in the channels caused by movement of the muscle masses to be massaged. A flexible cover maintains the channels in contact with the muscles to be massaged. Plural garment portions may be provided, each corresponding to a particular muscle mass of the person's body that is to be massaged and that has a generally uniform alignment of muscle fibers.
Inventors: | Douady; Dominique (Via Morgagni 19, 00198 Rome, IT); Jaunet; Marie-France Jacqueline Henriette (5 rue du Colonel Oudot, 75012 Paris, FR) |
Appl. No.: | 704790 |
Filed: | September 5, 1996 |
PCT Filed: | March 14, 1995 |
PCT NO: | PCT/FR95/00303 |
371 Date: | September 5, 1996 |
102(e) Date: | September 5, 1996 |
PCT PUB.NO.: | WO95/24881 |
PCT PUB. Date: | September 21, 1995 |
Mar 14, 1994[FR] | 94 02935 |
Current U.S. Class: | 2/69; 2/115 |
Intern'l Class: | A41B 001/00; 458; 410; 411; 413; DIG. 10; DIG. 3 |
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